A competent source within the party told INDEPENDENT at the weekend that some power brokers within the party who seemed united towards the convention held last weekend have since commenced underground moves to outwit one another in the battle for the control of the party.
Speaking under anonymity, the source, a serving senator, disclosed that the position of the vice presidential candidate of the party may eventually turn out more acrimonious than the fight for the presidential ticket given the fact that personalities who are angling for it cut across two geopolitical zones while the presidential ticket from all indications might be easily resolved by the Northern leaders who almost, always, speak with one voice.
According to a staunch PDP member, the emergence of Prince Uche Secondus from the South-South region has changed the equation in the party as the initial plans on how to share the major offices in the country has changed radically.
According to our source, the Office of the National Chairman ab initio was to be occupied by the South-West with the vice president position reserved for the South-East, while the North picks the presidential ticket as well as the speaker of the House of Representatives while the Senate president seat would have been occupied by someone from the South-South, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) allocated to the North.
But the sudden change of allocation given the emergence of Secondus as national chairman has thrown open the seat of vice president between the South-West and the South-East with strong gladiators from both sides ready to give their all for the seat.
It was gathered that Governor Ayodele Fayose intentionally refused to force adherence to the agreement reached by Southern leaders in Port Harcourt in May 2016 at the national convention, where it was unanimously agreed that the South-West will take the chairmanship while the deputy national chairman, South, will go to the South-South and vice presidential ticket given to the South-East.
The governor, our source said, had a personal ambition of picking the vice presidential slot and he is to run with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the party.
The move by the governor, it was said, has pitched him against some very big interests in the South-East, who are already rooting for Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu as the potential candidate for the vice presidential slot when and if the seat is eventually given to the South-East.
Already, some interests within the party, even in the South-West, are already working against the possible emergence of Fayose as vice presidential candidate of the party in an event the seat is eventually hijacked from the South-East and used as a compensation to the South-West following their loss of the chairmanship seat to the South-South.
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